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The first business cuts Cisco Systems have announced, and the Flip video camera is one of the first things to go.

Cisco said Tuesday it will leave parts of the business of consumer electronics, and that strategically realigns its business to focus on five main areas: routing, switching and services, collaboration, architectures, and video. One of the first victims of this business plan was the Flip Video, Pure Digital Cisco bought two years ago for U.S. $ 590 million.

Cisco said in a press release that “support existing customers FlipShare and is associated with a transition plan.” But the company will stop selling the small video camera. Instead, Cisco plans to refocus its consumer business in home networking technologies such as Linksys, Cisco and integrate Umi home video conferencing product in their business offering telepresence.

“We are making key moves, aimed at aligning their operations to support our strategy of network-centric platform,” said CEO John Chambers said in a statement. “As we move forward, our consumer efforts will focus on how we help our enterprise customers and service providers to optimize and expand their offerings to consumers and help ensure network capacity to meet the offerings.”

Cisco’s decision to shutter the Flip video company should not be a surprise. The company bought Pure Digital video cameras and high definition is becoming standard on mobile devices. Today, smart phones like the iPhone, offers high-definition video and ease the burden of video directly to social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube.

Last week, Salas posted a blog on the internal Web site the company acknowledges that the company has “disappointed and confused our investors to our employees.” And he promised to get back on track Cisco. Salas said that “we will take bold steps and we will take tough decisions.”

The Flip video business is not the only leader who is on site. Cisco also said it will close the Eos media business solutions and the use of technology in other parts of the business. Eos’s business was directed at entertainment companies. It was a set of technologies and development platform that helped bands and record labels to create Web sites.

The head of this division, Dan Scheinman Twitter announced on Tuesday that will leave Cisco after more than a decade in the business. Previously, he led Cisco’s Scheinman and acquisitions helped the company acquire more than 40 companies, including Lynksys and Scientific Atlantic.

In his tweet Scheinman Eos said it had achieved technically, but was still years away from economic success.

Cisco achieved a milestone in its most recent fiscal quarter, one with profound implications for the future of the company: Cisco made more money for new products and services that are made of routers and switches.

Naturally, the networking giant has long known this day would come, and has been more than ready for it. Cisco has been to embrace change, actively pursuing for years. Every major movement toward what has been called “adjacent markets”, to the products that some refer to the traditional logic of Cisco, the main markets, but are actually new territory for Cisco.

That is the logic that has come to this router provider to the neck in the sale of everything from set-top boxes for blade servers to video cameras. In fact, the company has its hands on some 30 “adjacent markets” at this time.

But this strategy is creating difficulties for Cisco even when it creates opportunities. In the data center, partners like HP and IBM are bitter rivals. In retail stores, Cisco is still trying to understand what consumers will buy – and at what price. Meanwhile, in your backyard router, Cisco is losing market share to companies with a sharper focus.

In general, the scattergun approach to obtain in 30 new markets – a war in dozens of different fronts – is starting to take its toll. Analysts in the deep history of Jim Duffy this week (page 1) argue that Cisco has been too aggressive, trying to maintain a growth rate that can not be more realistic one company $ 40 billion. In fact, the story also reports that Cisco is quiet slow its growth targets.

Certainly, this is the way Cisco had to take. long-standing determination of the company to be the first or second in every market we compete in the services well. When they had mastered their core markets, Cisco needed new worlds to conquer, but found them and went after them.

But now Cisco is an interesting point in time. There is a young company again, and can not move like a young, no matter how many new firms to absorb. If Cisco were a person, you could say that is graduating from college. Has been the big man on campus. It has done a lot of experimentation. But now is the time for Cisco to find what you want to be when I grow up.

Cisco has announced that its Cisco Networking Academy has enrolled students competing one-millionth.

The program works in partnership with educational institutions, government and community-based organizations worldwide and offers education through ICT-based curriculum in the classroom and in the cloud.

One of the programs offered at the Academy is to teach students to design, build, solve problems, and secure computer networks for greater access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world.

“Networking Academy is truly the world’s largest classroom. The unique delivery model combines the power of the network and the plume with the global need for teaching ICT skills-based to address the critical need for the creation of professional networks around the world, “said Mu’men Suliman, Area Director of the Academy, Cisco, GCC.

The Cisco Networking Academy was launched in the UAE in 1999, today there are 870 training centers throughout the Middle East and more than 168,000 students have passed through its doors.

Forty Network of Academies are in the UAE, with 5,601 students since its creation.

Networking Academies UAE saw a 10% increase in students from 2010, with 2,019 new students and 83 instructors.

More than 1,090 students have completed the program so far in the UAE.

The Networking Academy with classrooms in 165 countries and approximately four million students have participated in the program worldwide since its inception in 1997.

Cisco Networking courses offered in several languages.

Cisco will be celebrating the milestone of one million students, offering the Networking Academy students and alumni the opportunity to show the benefits of the Networking Academy through a video contest entitled “Why is the Cisco Networking Academy class as any other? “

Comstor, Westcon Group dedicated Cisco VAD, has been awarded 15 prizes to members of the provider network.

The collection honors VAD regional theater and globally in the Cisco Partner Summit Awards, presented at the event in the U.S.. Comstor received awards from Global Distribution Partner of the Year, Regional Distributor of the Year of Africa and the Levant, and UAE Distributor of the Year from his trip.

In addition, Comstor been recognized worldwide for the distribution of the company accelerated Partner (DAP) program.

The Cisco Global Partner Summit awards are given to channel partners high performance in specific sectors or technologies through vertical global theater and regional level, and are chosen by the executives of Cisco channel.

“Cisco is proud to partner with highly respected organizations and leaders in many industries worldwide, and it is my privilege to recognize a winner and Comstor’s Cisco Partner Summit global award,” said Scott Brown, Vice President of Global Distribution Channels Cisco. “The Global Distribution Partner of the Year Award presented to Westcon recognizes outstanding achievement as a Cisco channel partner in 2010.”

“Cisco Partner Summit awards are designed to recognize excellence among channel partners who demonstrate best business practices in its class and provide a model for the industry. Comstor achieve Global Distributor of the Year is a reflection of our joint venture growth through of our strong lineup, “said Claire Jones, regional sales manager of Cisco UAE.

“For more than a decade, Comstor has a proven track record as one of the fundamental values ​​of Cisco added distributors. Our dedicated team approach to partners around the world helping to accelerate their businesses by leveraging Cisco solutions through a variety of networks and collaborative technologies in data centers, “said Jon Pritchard, president of Comstor around the world.” We are proud of our longstanding relationship with Cisco and a great honor they have chosen to recognize us as a partner most valuable strategic, global distribution. “

The Virtual Computing Environment Co. (VCE), formed by the joint venture from Cisco and EMC, said this week that it is establishing its headquarters in Richardson, Texas, and the hiring of 434 people.

VCE decision based in Richardson is loaded with incentives. The State of Texas Enterprise Fund will provide $ 2,450,000 to finance the recruitment and expansion, and generate $ 35 million in capital investment VCE. Richardson and the City Council is expected to vote soon on a package worth over $ 1.2 million in property tax refunds and $ 500,000 in donations to help with moving and equipment, according to an article in the Triangle Business Journal.

VCE currently has operations in Dallas, Massachusetts, Silicon Valley and Ireland and employs 800 people. It was formed by Cisco and EMC to VMware and Intel investment.

The 434 jobs in Richardson will be new positions and not transfers from other operations, according to Triangle Business Journal story.

VCE is intended to accelerate the adoption of converged infrastructure, data center and computer models in the cloud. It is run by Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and First Data, a payment processing company.

VCE sell their products as pre-integrated joint distribution, storage, servers and virtualization is called a V block. ” Contributes Cisco switches and servers Unified Computing System, with VMware virtualization software. EMC storage arrays helps to block V.

VCE has signed a long term lease to occupy at least 87 square feet in a building in Richardson. VCE expects to take occupancy of space in the coming months.

VCE headquarters are in “Telecom Corridor” in Richardson, which is also home to some operations of Cisco, EMC, AT & T, Verizon Business and SunGard.